Arapahoan languages

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Arapahoan
Geographic
distribution:		 United States
Linguistic classification: Algic
Subdivisions:
Glottolog: arap1273[1]

The Arapahoan languages are a subgroup of the Plains group of Algonquian languages:

Nawathinehena, Arapaho, Gros Ventre

Nawathinehena is extinct and Arapaho and Gros Ventre are both endangered.[2][3]

Besawunena, only attested from a wordlist collected by Kroeber, differs only slightly from Arapaho, but a few of its sound changes resemble those seen in Gros Ventre. It had speakers among the Northern Arapaho as recently as the late 1920s.

Another reported Arapahoan variety is extinct Ha'anahawunena, but there is no documentation of it.

Notes

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ Lewis, M. Paul (ed.), 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International
  3. ↑ Goddard 2001:74-76, 79

References

  • Goddard, Ives (2001). "The Algonquian Languages of the Plains." In Plains, Part I, ed. Raymond J. DeMallie. Vol. 13 of Handbook of North American Indians, ed. William C. Sturtevant. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, pp. 71–79.
  • Marianne Mithun (1999). The Languages of Native North America. Cambridge Language Surveys. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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